The Rise of David Levinsky: Edited And with an Introduction And Notes By Jules Chametzky (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) - Softcover

Cahan, Abraham; Chametzky, Jules

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140186875 ISBN 13: 9780140186871

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1993

Synopsis

"The most important of all immigrant novels."--Carl Van Doren For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1.700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trus the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

About this title

Review:

"It is one of the best fictional studies of Jewish character available in English, and at the same time an intimate and sophisticated account of American business culture."
--Isaac Rosenfeld

About the Author:

Seth Lipsky is the founding editor of the Forward, the English-language successor to the Jewish Daily Forward. He edited the newspaper for ten years and is now a contributing editor of The Wall Street Journal. He lives in Brooklyn.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0140186875
• ISBN 13: 9780140186871
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 576